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TJ Doheny: record, next fight and profile →

David Greisman rounds up the best of the week's television fights.

The all-action Nick Ball will defend his WBA featherweight title against Ireland’s TJ Doheny at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool on March 15, it was announced today


In this week’s mailbag, BoxingScene tackles Naoya Inoue’s win over TJ Doheny, whether Manny Pacquiao should be allowed to come back against Mario Barrios and those accursed sanctioning bodies.

The team of TJ Doheny say the fighter’s back injury, sustained in the seventh-round of his loss to Naoya Inoue in Japan on Tuesday, is a short-term issue, but they have no doubt it was serious enough to cause the end of the fight

TJ Doheny, Naoya Inoue’s most recent opponent, is gigantic at super bantamweight. He looked so much bigger than the undisputed champion – and that’s something that should be taken into consideration whenever Inoue fights at that weight

DOING well in the ring with Naoya Inoue carries the same sense of foreboding a binge drinker will experience at the peak of their euphoria. In other words, you must enjoy it while it lasts. You must enjoy it while it lasts because what follows is inevitable: the vomiting, the genuflecting by the toilet, the begging for mercy. Also to come is the next-day headache, as well as the regret of knowing you were warned and understood the consequences of your actions. This, after all, is the price you pay. The price you pay for having fun. The price you pay for thinking you would get away with it.

Naoya Inoue fell short of producing his routinely dynamic showings Tuesday when he successfully defended his claim as undisputed junior-featherweight champion by stopping veteran TJ Doheny in Tokyo.

Top Rank are planning to bring Naoya Inoue to Las Vegas in 2025

The “Monster” Naoya Inoue was left picking bits of TJ Doheny out of his teeth after savaging his prey in seven rounds inside Koto-Ku’s Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Afterwards, it was confirmed by promoter Bob Arum that Inoue will next have his customary end-of-year fight in Japan before embarking on a date in America to open his 2025 campaign.